(April 11, 2017 at 7:17 pm)It_Was_me Wrote: I hear many Christians who will fight this no matter how many facts are presented to them about the matter. Hitler believe in God and considered himself a Christian. I don't see why so many fight this concept.
He was not really standard follower. He had a belief in providence from above, he really was his own brand of Catholic/deist/occult. But he was NOT an atheist who said "there is no such thing as a god".
He regardless still convinced a majority Christian nation to follow him so it still wouldn't matter. Stalin was an atheist but again, the majority during his rise, as it is still today is Russian Orthodox Christianity. It is also a myth that China is a majority atheist. China is authoritarian sure, but like Stalin and like Hitler, it wasn't religion they target but all types of dissent that went against their 1 party rule. Cuba is a majority Catholic.
The god of Abraham is an immovable authoritarian figure whom isn't voted into office and you cannot remove him from office. The effectiveness of a closed oppressive state works the same way blind loyalty to a God does. The same way the oppressive theocracies of Iran and Saudi Arabia work, blind loyalty.
Even North Korea has it's own weird state religion based on Asian traditions. Blind worship of a God is just as bad as blind worship of a state regardless of the leaders personal beliefs.
